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	<description>Rob Goforth, creator of Lair of the Nerd and author of the upcoming Red Bargain fantasy trilogy.</description>
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		<title>Lack of Focus</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2013/08/lack-of-focus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2013 11:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roses are red, Music is cool, I&#8217;ve got ADHD, ooh look a squirrel. I grew up as a hyperactive child before any real proper diagnosis of ADD was ever done, and managed to some extent with a restricted diet free of many of the stupider E numbers. So perhaps it shouldn&#8217;t be surprising that I&#8217;ve [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Bargain: Onwards?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2013/07/red-bargain-onwards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jul 2013 02:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, over the past several months I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time thinking about what I want to do with my life.. about what I can do with my life.  To be honest, part of me would love to be able to go and get a job and just work like a normal person.  But I&#8217;m not [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrabbling up a cliff</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/11/scrabbling-up-a-cliff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 18:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/?p=228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, I&#8217;m still here, still out of work, still trying to Make Good Art* and keep myself alive Working on writing things is becoming increasingly difficult, as my depression has caused motivation to be very hard to come by. I stare at a blank canvas and nothing seems to flow. I am trying to continue [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Pets and microchips</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/11/pets-and-microchips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I made another Cardboard Theatre animation.  If you like it, please like it on Youtube, go to http://facebook.com/lairofthenerd and like the link on there, and share it with your friends. I admit, I am quite new to this whole social media promotion thing and am struggling to know how to get more people interested. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Biographical</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/11/biographical/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/11/biographical/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I spent a while making an autobiographical post for my IndieGoGo campaign, and decided the best form for it would be a video. At first I considered a blog video style post of me looking straight at camera, but I was too worried about my appearance to do that, so I filmed my cat, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>So.. now what?</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/07/so-now-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2012 23:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fantasy novel, which is now renamed &#8220;The Harbinger Rises&#8221; &#8211; Book I of The Red Bargain has now been completed.  Or at least, the first draft has been. 116265 words including the glossary, which is about at the level I expected it / planned it to be. So; now I need to get a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon, seriously, learn to count.</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/07/amazon-seriously-learn-to-count/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/07/amazon-seriously-learn-to-count/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every single time this happens; I select a price range on Amazon and they show me things outside that range. How is that helpful? Also they keep showing me used things sold by people I don&#8217;t know.. I know they&#8217;re trying to be a &#8216;marketplace&#8217; but seriously, just show me the new things that you [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Violence in Video Games</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/06/violence-in-video-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of talk in the wake of E3 about how very violent video games have become.  I want to talk about it in detail when I have more time, but below is a bit I wrote on the subject in order to spark off discussion a couple of years ago that I [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the New Tomb Raider isn&#8217;t that bad</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/06/why-the-new-tomb-raider-isnt-that-ba/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/06/why-the-new-tomb-raider-isnt-that-ba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, Kotaku posted an article that got people upset, talking about how people will want to &#8220;protect&#8221; Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, with quotes from executive producer Ron Rosenberg. There were a couple of disturbing things in there: firstly, the idea that people don&#8217;t project themselves into Lara as a character.  The viewpoint presented here is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Sexism in Gaming is Not OK</title>
		<link>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/06/why-sexism-in-gaming-is-not-ok/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/06/why-sexism-in-gaming-is-not-ok/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Xaphod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about this a fair bit over the last couple of weeks and decided to make it the subject of a blog post.  I&#8217;m a heterosexual white guy living in Western Europe, and I know that means that in general I have life set to easy mode.  Male privilege, that&#8217;s what that means, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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